Transition écologique

Pour arrêter le changement climatique, nous devons limiter le réchauffement de la planète à 1,5°C. Mais pouvons-nous encore atteindre cet objectif?

Women are often disproportionally affected by climate change impacts which aggravate existing gender inequalities and as a result of persisting gender norms and discriminations. Women and men also contribute to climate change responses in different ways.

The revised, second edition (2018) of “Urban Planning Processes in Lagos” is the result of a yearlong research process that examines the relation between urban policies, urban interventions, the role of governance, and the different actors in Lagos. The publication shows that Lagos urban policies do not often benefit those at the centre of economic development: the Lagosians – of which a significant number lives below the poverty line.

Sexual and gender-based violence seems to be inherent in the surroundings of extractive projects. More than often, it is on the instruction of the mother companies in the global North that security forces commit atrocities and severe human rights violations in communities affected by extractive projects and very often sexual and gender-based violence are among them. How is it possible to hold the mother companies accountable? How can the intentionality and foreseeability of those crimes be proved? How do you find and secure evidence? What do non-judicial company grievance mechanisms do for the victims?